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MANY FREEPORTERS were served and helped when the Freeport Rotary Club, in conjunction with Feed the Children, brought a huge tractor-trailer with food and other necessities to the Honne Deport parking lot. From left are James Caracciolo, Sam landiorio, Nassau Legislator David Denenberg, Rotary President Mike Voldo, John Bozza and Rabbi Reuben Katz.
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by Douglas Finlay
Not one blade has turned from the proposed wind park off of Jones Beach and yet windy conditions continued to generate plenty of sparks as two camps embroiled over the need for a wind park voiced their passions again to the Mineral Management Services (MMS) public hearing, this time at Massapequa High School.
Over 90 residents implored the MMS to consider all the facts of the case, including global warming and the sea-level rise of oceans, industrialization of the open space of the water, shifting sands where the wind park will be located, radar problems for tracking planes, electromagnetic fields generated from the cable and the officials who could benefit from the project -because it was being fast-tracked in Washington,
Doug Slitor, manager of the MMS
project, remarked that public seniinKiii would play no part as to whether the wind park would be built or not. "The purpose of this meeting is to simply listen to your comments," he said in opening the meeting.
"We have experience with over 125 companies that have worked in water conditions, so we have a good idea of how to operate in water," he added.
Public officials speak
Public officials were not far from the vortex once again. John Venditto, supervisor of the Town of Oyster Bay, urged the MMS to hold the plan in obeyance until further studies could be completed. He was concerned, for example, about the cost benefits of spending $440 million to build the wind park in which only 44,000 LIPA customers out of over 1 million would benefit.
County legislative Minority Leader
P(.l(.i Sthmidt (12th LD),
whose district includes Wantagh, Seaford and Massapequa, told MMS officials that FPL didn't even have a track record of building windmills in the water. "Who will pay for those experiments?" he asked.
County Legislator Dave Denenberg (19th LD) reminded the audience that one didn't need to be an environmentalist to be in favor of the windmills, just as an environmentalist didn't necessarily need to be in favor of the wind park.
Gary Slavin, speaking on behalf of Congressman Peter King (3rd CD), said Mr. King was concerned about the problems the windmills could pose for
tracking plane radar, and about the safety of cables using an alternating current, which creates an electromagnetic field, running through the neighborhoods.
Mr. Slitor reiterated that the windmills would each generate 140 mW of electricity. They would be 260 feet high and the blades, spinning at anywhere from 5-13 revolutions per minute in 8-60 mile per hour winds, would be 364 feet at their highest sweep and 80 feet at their lowest sweep.
They would be 19 feet in diameter, be 4.7 miles off Jones Beach and 3.7 miles off Gilgo Beach and would feature aviation
and navigation lights.
(continued on page 19)
In This Issue
Freeport power rates to rise
Baldwin property to become open space
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| Title | The-Leader_2006-07-27 |
| Subject | Newspaper |
| Description | This is a Newspaper distributed locally within the Village of Freeport and Baldwin. |
| Creator | Linda Toscano |
| Publisher | L & M Publications, Inc. |
| Contributors | Scanned by Imaging & Microfilm Access, Inc. (Bohemia, NY 11716) |
| Date | 2006 |
| Type | Periodical |
| Format | PDF; TIFF |
| Source | Freeport Memorial Library |
| Language | English |
| Coverage | United States |
| Rights | This digital image may be freely used for educational uses, as long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this image is permitted without written permission of the Freeport Memorial Library, 144 W. Merrick Road, Freeport, NY 11520 or email: frreference@freeportlibrary.info |
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